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  1. The lever that forced all the changes in Austin area was the change of 3 Leander ISD 6A moving up to 6A. UIL doesn't split school districts across UIL districts unless there are just too man to fit, so there was going to be a Round Rock-centric district and a Leander ISD-centric district (5 schools from each) with 11 other schools to spread around. Of the remaining 11, 9 are south-ish, so they could have done two 6-team districts and one 9-team district,but they went with e 7-team districts. Okay,I could buy the wealthy influence factor, but if that was the case, I would have thought that the influence would be put towards staying south rather than dealing with RR travel. Now shoving Vandy into Region 3, that very well could be that influence. "Okay, here's your choice - big district with AISD, Drip, and Hays, or go up to RRISD and we send LISD to Houston. Which do you want?"
  2. Round Rock and Leander ISDs are adjacent, so that mix always makes sense when the numbers work out, but it makes very little sense to have Lake Travis travel through all of LISD territory to get to RR when they could have just put East View and Hutto in with RRISD and Lake Travis/Westlake in with LISD. It makes no sense geographically to have done what they did. Does anyone know if the UIL provided any reasoning for this? I can only come up with two theories - one is that the RRISD/WL/LT mix is mostly mid-large enrollments, with only Stone Point under 2700. The LISD schools are mostly small 6A (all under 2500), but then Hutto (3314) is a major outlier. The other thing is if they didn't want to throw LT and Westlake in with Vandy and CP due to strength of football and overall athletic programs, but I'm not aware of that ever being a consideration, and they've had Vandy/LT/Westlake in the same district in the past. Neither argument seems convincing. I'm a little curious why a couple of people say UIL has an issue with RRISD. What would make them have an agenda against RRISD? I've been in Austin area over 50 years and I can't come up with any history there.
  3. Leander ISD avoids a "District of Death" scenario with Lake Travis, Westlake, Dripping Springs, but shifts into Region 3 such that all playoff games until state semifinals will be with Houston-area schools. Definitely a good news/bad news situation. LT/Westlake in with Round Rock schools ending longtime district rivalries with Bowie and (in girls sports anyway) Austin High. Bummer to see Dripping Springs slotted away from LT/Westlake. Oddity I don't know that I've seen in the past (but maybe I just hadn't noticed), the 12 6A schools from Cypress Fairbanks ISD are split into regions 2 and 3, so in theory there could be schools from the same school district as opponents in a state final.
  4. I was just about to ask if the timeline was such that the roster was set until the summer. Glad I had to wait a couple of minutes to figure out what email address was used for my mostly lurking surly account. So still, what is the timeline? Can additions at this point get in for spring or are they out until the summer?
  5. Don't remember one on 19th (renamed MLK in 1975), but I was late 70s. Luigi's which resembles that description was at 21st and Guad (near the Blimpie's). There was a Pizza Hut on the south side of MLK near Guad and a Mr. Gatti's also on south side closer to San Antonio, fwiw.
  6. Stanford was still in it right up to the W5000m. They got 6 pts for one runner finishing 3rd, but they had a second runner in the race (finished 17th). If they had gotten 3 more points from those 2 runners, they would have finished in 4th in the team race and would have won the DC. Crazy close.
  7. Anybody know how common it is for draft-eligible guys to bother with portal and then sign with MLB? I'm never sure how to really assess baseball recruiting due to potential loss of players to draft.
  8. If Texas had just 1 less point, they would have dropped to a tie with Tech for 11/12th and would have finished behind USC for DC. Kenondra Davis came through in 200m in 6th for 3 pts and that was the ultimate difference. Whew!
  9. Going into final event, USC 2nd, Stanford 6th, UT tied for 9th. Arkansas takes 2nd into 4x400 to knock UT to tie for 10th. If I've done my math right, UT wins DC at 1255.25, USC at 1253.75, Stanford at 1251. Let's see what DC Updates says though.
  10. Not that people are likely to care, but I found my earlier gaffe - I had assigned USC's W SOC result to M SOC, and that threw the countable sports off even though the raw totals matched the published Learfield updates. Having said that, going into W T&F tonight, I have Stanford still at 1237.5, UT at 1224, and USC at 1163.75. USC will get to add full results of their W T&F score since they have not maxed out on number of countable sports. Stanford W T&F has to finish better than 15th to start adding any points to their score, UT W have to finish better than tied for 38th to start counting. My totals agree with DC Updates' latest assessment in that UT has only a virtual 24.75 point lead on USC because UT will have to drop the 35.5 points for W indoor TF from their final score. I think that UT women have to finish 25th or better just to catch Stanford's current total. Best chance for UT is colossal failure from USC women tonight along with fantastic results in the 4 events left for UT women (along with Stanford women not finishing higher than 15th, which they certainly could). Tough, but not impossible.
  11. Confirmed. That's embarrassing - oh, well. Yep, USC still in it. Sorry about that.
  12. DC Updates has an error in calculating USC's max score. He overstates it by 40 points because starting this year, women's soccer *has* to be counted, and USC gets zero points there instead of the 40 he was counting for men's golf as the final counted score of the max 14 optional sports. They can't count a full 200 points from sweeping T&F - they get a max of 160. Adding 160 to USC's current score of 1068.75 leaves them at 1228.75, which is short of Stanford's current score, so they're out. The remaining schools mathematically in contention are Stanford at 1237.5 (max 1352.5), Texas at 1211 (max 1348.5), UCLA at 1130.5 (max 1319), and North Carolina at 1178.75 (max 1310.25). UNC has very small and weak T&F teams at natls, so they're eliminated for all practical purposes. UCLA has a very small and weak men's team, so they really need to win both CWS and women's track to just barely pass Stanford's current score, so their chances are razor thin, since it's not going to be that hard for Stanford to improve their score through the women's track team (small, but with some highly ranked runners and jumpers). Men's basketball only bringing in 5 points is to me the obvious disappointment, though it does get us out of the RT purgatory. On the positive side, I sure wasn't expecting to get 60 points out of the beach volleyball team. C'mon track (especially the men's hurdlers)!
  13. Okay, more succinctly, DC Updates overstates USC's total score potential by 40 points due to a technical error with women's soccer and USC cannot catch Stanford's current 1237.5. UT T&F has to do place high enough to catch and stay ahead of Stanford. So, watch results for UT M&W as well as Stanford W. Despite Stanford's relatively low track ranking, it only takes a couple of really high finishes to move way up the T&F team standings.
  14. My swag at UCLA and North Carolina shows North Carolina out of contention due to their small chances of scoring in T&F at a level for those scores to count (I have their 18th and 19th point scoring teams at 40.5 and 28.5, and their participant list for T&F is small and weak on both sides). UCLA, on the other hand, gets at least 73 from baseball after taking out UTSA and advancing to MCWS and could get 27 more which would bring their total to 1129.5 (I'm off by 4 points from DC Updates 34/37 total somewhere but I'm not going to debug it), and they will likely score some points in women's T&F (not men so much). Their 18th and 19th placed teams I currently have at 21.5 and 17 points, so that's not much of a bar for improvement via T&F. They're probably out of it, but if they win baseball, it would get a bit tighter, and they'll almost certainly pass UNC in the standings.
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